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  • 12:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 07:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • After Copenhagen
    Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, talks about what got accomplished at the Copenhagen climate change summit...and what didn’t. Also, NPR’s Carl Kassel on his farewell tour; more uncommon economic resolutions.
  • 12:00 PM
  • Growing, Baking, Painting, and Trading
    Gerard Lordahl, of the Council on the Environment’s Open Space Greening Program, discusses gardening and takes your calls! Then, Rose Levy Beranbaum, who wrote the revolutionary The Cake Bible, talks about her latest book on baking. Also, celebrated painter James Rosenquist explains the ideas behind some of his major works. ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • 1989's Musical Revolution
    At the end of the eighties, communism was crumbling in Europe. But on America's West Coast, the grunge and gangsta rap movements were just getting started. Today on Soundcheck, we'll hear how the political upheaval of 1989 shook up the music world. And: jazz-rock outfit Garage A Trois performs live.
  • 03:00 PM
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  • 04:00 PM
  • A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

  • 08:00 PM
  • A hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.

  • 09:00 PM
  • Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

  • 10:00 PM
  • 1989's Musical Revolution
    At the end of the eighties, communism was crumbling in Europe. But on America's West Coast, the grunge and gangsta rap movements were just getting started. Today on Soundcheck, we'll hear how the political upheaval of 1989 shook up the music world. And: jazz-rock outfit Garage A Trois performs live.
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2861: Provenance
    Maya Beiser & friends perform live music in our studio for cello and electronics, featuring works by Raz Mesinai, Douglas Cuomo, and Djivan Gasparyan, among others. Inspired by the glory of Spain's Golden Age, when Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived together peaceably in a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, and ...